From: Peter P
Message: 49831
Date: 2007-09-05
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> That's a far reach. As you know some have linked
> Uralic with Eskimo-Aleut
> BUT supposedly, morsha is pre-Uralic
> BTW: English walrus is supposed from Old Norwegian
> hval-hros "whale horse" (vel sim), do you put a
> bridle on the tusks?
> Other Scandinavian substrates words?
> I've seen that eider and rein(deer) are --although
> reindeer would have to be a folk etymology in English,
> it spawned Spanish reno "reindeer" but "wapiti" or
> "pronghorn antilope" (gama in Mexican Spanish) in SW
> US Spanish
>
>